The Satyricon/Seneca, The ApocolocyntosisBy: Petronius, Seneca Perhaps the strangestand most strikingly modernwork to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility. Here Petronius brilliantly brings to life the courtesans, legacy hunters, pompous professors and dissolute priestesses of the age and, above all, Trimalchio, the archetypal self made millionaire whose pretentious vulgarity on